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GARRU NGAJUU NGAAY
New artwork commission for Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) and presented as part of the exhibition Brook Garru Andrew: DIWIL.
GARRU NGAJUU NGAAY (magpie, I see) is a wall drawing, incorporating text and neon. It creates an immersive environment of patterns and markings inspired by the Wiradjuri and Gamilaroi traditions of tree and shield carving that have been practiced for millennia. The bold colours – white, black, red, blue and yellow – reference both the Aboriginal Flag and the Union Jack.
GARRU NGAJUU NGAAY continues the artist’s approach to wall drawing as museum intervention. In this instance, the wall drawing takes over the former Land and Title Building which was recently renovated to become MAMA’s collection exhibition room. The work creates an immersive environment to hold DIWIL a collection of the artist’s key works from the last decade including photographs from the Possessed series which reimagine Western landscape traditions and the colonial viewpoint.
DIWIL (pr. G-whi-il) is a Wiradjuri word meaning a collection of small particles or things. For the artist, thinking about DIWIL raises the problems of access to cultural objects and traditional lands for many First Nations peoples today. As the title for this exhibition, DIWIL describes the bringing together of new and past works by the artist as they enter the museum’s permanent collection and begin a dialogue with other collection works and the museum’s spaces and buildings.
Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) — Friday 12 March – Sunday 5 September 2021
Brook Garru Andrew, DIWIL, installation view, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Brook Garru Andrew, DIWIL, installation view, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Brook Garru Andrew, DIWIL, installation view, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Brook Garru Andrew, DIWIL, installation view, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Brook Garru Andrew, DIWIL, installation view, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Brook Garru Andrew, DIWIL, installation view, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch